Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to office
Participle: officed
Gerund: officing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | office |
| you | office |
| he;she;it | offices |
| we | office |
| you | office |
| they | office |
Perfect
| I | have officed |
| you | have officed |
| he;she;it | has officed |
| we | have officed |
| you | have officed |
| they | have officed |
Past
| I | officed |
| you | officed |
| he;she;it | officed |
| we | officed |
| you | officed |
| they | officed |
Pluperfect
| I | had officed |
| you | had officed |
| he;she;it | had officed |
| we | had officed |
| you | had officed |
| they | had officed |
Future
| I | will office |
| you | will office |
| he;she;it | will office |
| we | will office |
| you | will office |
| they | will office |
Future Perfect
| I | will have officed |
| you | will have officed |
| he;she;it | will have officed |
| we | will have officed |
| you | will have officed |
| they | will have officed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | office |
| you | office |
| he;she;it | office |
| we | office |
| you | office |
| they | office |
Perfect
| I | have officed |
| you | have officed |
| he;she;it | have officed |
| we | have officed |
| you | have officed |
| they | have officed |
Imperfect
| I | officed |
| you | officed |
| he;she;it | officed |
| we | officed |
| you | officed |
| they | officed |
Pluperfect
| I | had officed |
| you | had officed |
| he;she;it | had officed |
| we | had officed |
| you | had officed |
| they | had officed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would office |
| you | would office |
| he;she;it | would office |
| we | would office |
| you | would office |
| they | would office |
Perfect
| I | would have officed |
| you | would have officed |
| he;she;it | would have officed |
| we | would have officed |
| you | would have officed |
| they | would have officed |
Imperative
| you | office |
| we | Let's office |
| you | office |
Verbs conjugated like 'office'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'office'
officer,
affile,
affine,
efface,
offline,
offre,
suffice,
advice,
affect,
affiance,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English office, from Old French office, from Latin officium (“personal, official, or moral duty; official position; function; ceremony, esp. last rites”), contracted from opificium (“construction: the act of building or the thing built”), from opifex (“doer of work, craftsman”) + -ium (“-y”, forming actions), from op- (“work”) + -i- (connective) + -fex (combining form of faciō (“to do, to make”)).
2. In the religious sense, Displaced native Old English hād.
3. The computing sense is a genericization of various proprietary program suites, such as Microsoft Office.
Sample Sentences
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Is he officed in Congressional Relations or is he officed in SCA? [1966, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings - Volume 8, page 451:]
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Prior to that time, Station personnel were first officed in temporary wartime barracks on the campus and then on the second floor of the Journalism Building. [1976, General Technical Report RM., page 128:]
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"I believed that Dave was just doing a favor for his brother," said Somerville, who added that he assumed Lou and Dave officed together. [1988 December 2, Grant Pick, “He Survived Operation Greylord”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2010:]